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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Civil actions

Article L615-10

When an invention, which is the subject of a patent application or patent, is exploited for national defence purposes by the State or its suppliers, subcontractors and subcontractors, without an explo…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: European patents

Article L614-10

Except in cases of nullity actions and by derogation from the first paragraph of Article L. 614-7, where a French-language translation has been produced under the conditions set out in the second para…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-138-1

For the application of article L. 3332-18 of the French Labour Code relating to capital increases reserved for members of a company savings plan, where the general meeting has waived preferential subs…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: National health data system

Article L1461-1

I.-The national health data system brings together and makes available :1° Data from the information systems mentioned in article L. 6113-7 of the present code ;2° Data from the national inter-regime…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Investigation, authorisation, refusal, renewal

Article R5121-74-1

I.- When examining any request for authorisation for compassionate access, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé has the prerogatives set out…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-1

I.-The Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes is an independent public authority. The Haut Conseil carries out the following missions: 1° It registers the statutory auditors and third-country audito…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisational rules.

Article L4142-1

The Conseil national de l'ordre national des chirurgiens-dentistes comprises twenty-four members, namely :1° One pair representing dental surgeons practising in the Grand Est region ;2° One member rep…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibition on cash payment of certain claims

Article L112-6-1

Payments made or received by a notary on behalf of the parties to a deed received in authentic form and giving rise to land publicity must be made by bank transfer. A decree in the Conseil d'Etat spec…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article L131-86-1

Where the account holder is a sole trader with limited liability, the provisions of this section apply :- to accounts relating to unrestricted assets where the payment incident is the result of a cheq…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Indexation

Article L112-3-1

Notwithstanding any legislative provision to the contrary, the indexation of debt securities and financial contracts mentioned respectively in 2 of II and III of article L. 211-1 is unrestricted.

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